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Newspaper
Madison Weekly Herald
Location
Madison, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
2
The Madison Herald issues weekly edition details dated September 29, 1921 from Madison Indiana. It lists the Herald Company publish information and post office mailing details for Madison and surrounding area.
Madison reports Carrie Ellison named Postmaster at Kent. The brief column notes residents returning from Indianapolis and St. Louis visits, a court petition for sale of real estate, a lawyer transfer case, a tumor operation at King's Daughters Hospital, a Smyrna township marriage license, a rock crusher move for Gordon road work, and a Bethlehem general store fire with $7,000 insurance.
California outlaw Roy Gardner, already serving 25 years after a 1920 mail truck robbery, escapes from McNeil Island Federal Prison. It marks his third breakout as guards report a jailbreak during a baseball game, with gunfire exchanged and two inmates wounded by attempting escape.
The Eagle Spring Grange of Pleasant Ridge invites the community to a full day fall fair on the Grange lawn Saturday September 15 1924. Highlights include farm product displays stock and poultry exhibitions with premiums and judges plus horse shows races games baby show band refreshments and a drill exhibition with a new piano funded by donations. Gratitude is expressed to Madison merchants and local papers for support and a list of donors will follow.
A barn on J Eppich’s farm at St Magdalene Ripley county was struck by lightning during a night storm and destroyed by fire. The Big Creek telephone exchange in Monroe township burned out by lightning. No other Jefferson county damage reported despite heavy rain and flooded creeks. some hail in parts with minor damage.
Real estate transfers listed include Mayme Golden and Theresa Gold in to Albert Jabrries on north Jefferson street with nominal consideration. Thomas W. Jackson to Peter Metzner and wife for property in West Madison. Anna Devar et al to Adraine Kunz len on Poplar street. Amelia James and husband to Frank Devar et al on East First street. Sarah Brookens and husband to Lila Maud Cooney city property for $100. Clarence Driggs and wife to John Driggs 115 acres in Madison township for $1.
Friends in Madison were notified of the death of John C Kaltenbach a former Madisonian who died in Cincinnati yesterday afternoon at 3 30 He was a shoe repairer who ran a shop in Madison for many years He moved to Cincinnati about 20 years ago aged 66 Funeral services were held at 3 this afternoon at the home of his sister Mrs Thomas Hughes in Newport Kentucky The remains will be brought to Madison for burial in Springdale cemetery tomorrow afternoon.
In circuit court today William W. Walker was appointed administrator of the estate of Fiester Walker deceased. Emerson Lemen and Joseph M. Cooper are attorneys for the estate.
Jury commissioners drew grand and petit juries for the October term. Names listed include Thomas Matthews of Hanover, Gabriel Phillips of the city, James Whitsett of Republican, and Lord S. Graham of Lancaster among others. Reserves feature Steve Lichlyter of Smyrna and Henry Kahn of the city. Proceedings set to begin Monday morning before Judge Griffith.
Miss Henrietta Dipper became Mrs. Charles A. Roth at a quiet East Fifth Street ceremony with Rev. B. Arends officiating. Attendants were Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Jeffries of Louisville. The couple will reside in Sandusky where Roth oversees a tile and brick plant.
Rev A J Shearer who was recently appointed pastor conducted services at Canaan Methodist Church yesterday and will move with Mrs Shearer to Canaan this week returning to Greenville in the morning trail.
Misses Katie and Louise Z left for Carrollton Kentucky to visit friends. Mary Hensier returned to Chicago after visiting her brother George Hensier in Kent. John Moore of Madison received an $18 a month pension under the Spanish American pension law via Emerson Lemen. A bronze tablet honoring Dr. David W. Moffat will be unveiled at Fort Wayne First Presbyterian Church on October 9. Delana C. Bear and family travel to Riverside California for the winter for health reasons.
The funeral for Owen Nugent who died at his home near Kent was held at 9 this morning from St Michael's church. Rev M L Guthneck officiated with a Requiem High Mass and a sermon praising Nugent's character. St Michael's choir sang and Mrs F W Pfortner performed Face to Face. Pallbearers were Oscar Hunger Edward M Smith Leroy Gassett Stanley Gasgert Lawrence Schreiber Charles Schreiber. Relatives from Pittsburgh and Indianapolis attended.
At New Yorks Grand Central terminal baggage handlers note stray trunks frequently claim diamonds and jewelry but later reveal only clothing items when reclaimed. Passengers report exaggerated losses, and officials confirm the pattern across several cases.
In Newburgh area, Italian gardener Anthony Fischera found a mastodon skeleton about three feet underground on his farm near Washington Lake. Paleontology student Hugo Hirscheim advised on its significance as the bones show fossilization, including jaws tusks and vertebrae. one tusk is broken but largely intact. A state official plans to inspect the find.
The Bear River marshes in Utah host eleven duck species and about 100 Canada geese. Ducks include redhead cinnamon teal mallard shoveler gadwall ruddy duck pintail and green winged teal. Duck numbers rise through summer, with a late summer migration and fall hunting influx.
Preliminary Internal Revenue Bureau figures show the United States spent about 59 million dollars less on candy and 44 million on chewing gum in 1921 versus 1920. Facial decoration costs fell from 160.6 million to 145.0 million, while expenditures for jewelry, art instruments, and sculpture also declined.
Herbert McCarty of Catiwassu Pennsylvania on a ten day furlough from New York Polyclinic hospital recounts his recovery after eighteen operations for war injuries. Bullet fragments removed from ribs shoulder and jugular region. he describes eating with his brother two weeks after the last surgery.
Bess, a highly bred Jersey owned by Samuel Young of Campbell's Creek West Virginia, succumbed to acute alcohol intoxication after consuming mash discarded by moonshiners. The cow staggered about the fence lines before collapsing and dying.
Twin sisters Erna Magge and Erma Hagge united in marriage to Floyd Wilder and Herbert Fox in Mitchell. The weddings occurred at the parents Mr and Mrs Herman Hagge home with all four heading off on a joint automobile honeymoon.
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